[2018] NZEnvC 090 Cabra Rural Developments Limited v Auckland Council [pdf, 31 MB]
...objectives and policies for the SEA overlay, is that it does not contain clear policies requiring avoidance of adverse effects on Policy 11 values and sites. The amended wording, enabling the inclusion of 09.3(1)(a) and 09.3(9) and 09.3(10) is designed to explicitly require avoidance and also includes some specific effects-based sub-policies that were previously specified for non significant sites in chapter E15, but which also apply within SEAs under the proposed amendments. In pa...